[YarraBUG-list] Vale Alan Parker OAM

[Yarra Bicycle Users Group]

Dear all,

Sad news this week with the passing of Alan Parker OAM just two days shy 
of his 80th birthday, read below for a brief overview of Alan's 
contributions to cycling and funeral details for this Monday.
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**Vale Alan Parker OAM
*http://www.yarrabug.org/2016/03/31/vale-alan-parker-oam/*
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*From Bruce Robinson:* I am sorry to report that Alan Parker died on 
Easter Monday. He left a momentous legacy of work in bicycle planning 
and advocacy. He was an important mentor and advisor to me.

*From Doreen Parker:* Thank your kind thoughts. The funeral will be held 
at Cirrus Reflections Space, Bunurong Memorial Park, 790 Frankston 
Dandenong Road, Dandenong South on Monday April 4th at 2pm. No flowers 
please but donations can be made to Medicins Sans Frontiers. Envelopes 
will be available at the Chapel. Further information: Tobin Bros 034 
5975 2233.

*Make a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières:* Bicycle and sustainable 
transport activist Alan Arthur Parker passed away on 28th March 2016. 
His funeral will be held on 4th April. In lieu of flowers, donations to 
MSF are invited
https://msfinmemory.everydayhero.com/au/doreen-parker

*The Age: Online tributes for Alan Arthur Parker
*http://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/obituary.aspx?pid=179432077*
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*A brief overview of Alans contribution to cycling and sustainable 
transport*


*Alan Parker PEST (People for Ecologically Sustainable Transport)* was 
created by a small group of transport activists in 1996 to promote the 
need for an ecologically sustainable transport system. A transport 
system that greatly reduces road congestion, oil consumption and 
greenhouse gas emissions and increases the level of incidental exercise 
in travelling from A to B.
http://www.alanparker-pest.org/


*Online Opinion: Bicycles: sustainable transport needs city 
infrastructure (30 May 2012)*
For 30 years I was an advocate for bicycle Infrastructure. For 10 years 
I was an advocate for electric bicycles. I did this for aged people like 
me, who are falling to bits, have dodgy hearts and hips and find it 
painful to walk. I got my OAM ‘gong’ due to referees who knew what I had 
achieved. As two of them told me, I was ‘gong worthy’ because I was a 
rat bag who made things happen. Now, with an OAM after my name, it makes 
advocacy easier.

My bicycle advocacy started in the1970’s in the era of the Board of 
Works, and the Country Roads Board. These predecessors of VicRoads 
wanted to bury the Melbourne Bikeplan, after its approval by the Hamer 
government, as did VicRoads in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2012 the Premier 
wants to bury Hamer’s initiative by dumping the generous bikeway funding 
promised in 2011 by Transport Minister Mulder.
Read more: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13676


*It’s an honour: Alan Arthur Parker OAM*
For service to the community, particularly through Bicycle Victoria.
Founding Member, Bicycle Institute of Victoria, 1975; President, for 2 
years; Research
Officer, for 12 years.
Vice-President, Bicycle Federation of Australia.
Member, State Government Bicycle Planning Committee, for many years.
Planning work, the Geelong Bike Plan and other bike paths in Melbourne.
Acting President, Town and Country Planning Association, for 2 years; 
Vice-President;
Committee Member; Member, for many years.
Member, Public Transport Users Association, for many years
http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1145394&search_type=quick&showInd=true



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